Over the last four years of the past decade working out of Canberra, I became very familiar with Australia's defence acquisition processes. As a then in-country industrial Pom, with a previous RAF background in fast-jet flying, operational management and future procurement, I was invariably impressed with the quality of expertise throughout the DoD organisations involved in assessing the ADF's long-term air combat/strike capability needs. In all my dealings across the spectrum, Hugh White stood out then as a person of high integrity and with a stronger grasp than most of defence capability projections - watching the 4 Corners programme today, that view is unchanged. As for the two Chris(s)'s and Kopp not a lot has changed there either!! The Defence Minister and his two associated military chiefs seem to have lost the plot, IMHO that is.
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